It's no secret OSNews has a bit of a thing for the BeOS. I can only speak for myself, obviously, but relatively speaking, BeOS was the best operating system ever made. The man who started all this was Jean-Louis Gassee, former executive at Apple, who founded Be, Inc. in 1991. In the second half of the '90s, Apple was looking for a replacement for its heavily outdated Mac OS, after several failed attempts at developing its own - it came down to Steve Jobs NeXT, or BeOS. Be didn't make it, and Gassee is happier for it.

If BeOS were used, the interface would probably have been much better. As an occasional Mac user, I find the interface much like some weird minimalist X Windows desktop from the '90s that's only 270K big. Much prettier of course, but still weird (KDE user here).